Video of Lockheed RQ-170 Sentinel Stealth Drones Captured at Creech Air Force Base
January 31st, 2026RQ-170 Sentinel Stealth Drone Supported Maduro Capture Mission:
At least one, and possibly two, of the U.S. Air Force’s secretive RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drones appear to have taken part in last night’s operation to capture Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his wife. Spotting an RQ-170 in the context of a real-world mission is very rare, but it would not be unexpected in this case. The RQ-170 was designed by Lockheed’s Skunk Works exactly for this application, to provide persistent surveillance of high-value targets deep inside contested environments, including in support of special operations missions just like the one overnight in Venezuela.
Via: Uncanny Expeditions:
The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films
January 31st, 2026Via: The Atlantic:
The attention-span crisis goes to the movies.
Everyone knows it’s hard to get college students to do the reading—remember books? But the attention-span crisis is not limited to the written word. Professors are now finding that they can’t even get film students—film students—to sit through movies. “I used to think, If homework is watching a movie, that is the best homework ever,” Craig Erpelding, a film professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, told me. “But students will not do it.”
I heard similar observations from 20 film-studies professors around the country. They told me that over the past decade, and particularly since the pandemic, students have struggled to pay attention to feature-length films. Malcolm Turvey, the founding director of Tufts University’s Film and Media Studies Program, officially bans electronics during film screenings. Enforcing the ban is another matter: About half the class ends up looking furtively at their phones.
DOJ Releases 3 Million Pages Of Epstein Files Including Hundreds Of Thousands Of Photos
January 31st, 2026U.S. Department of Justice Epstein Library
Via: ZeroHedge:
The Justice Department on Friday announced the ‘final’ release of 3 million pages, 180,000 images, and 2,000 videos connected to the Jeffrey Epstein case, according to deputy AG Todd Blanche.
Sample: Bill Gates Slipped Wife Antibiotics For STD He Got From Russian Hookers
CERN Accepts $1 Billion in Private Cash Towards Future Circular Collider
January 31st, 2026Via: Physic’s World:
The CERN particle-physics lab near Geneva has received $1bn from private donors towards the construction of the Future Circular Collider (FCC). The cash marks the first time in the lab’s 72-year history that individuals and philanthropic foundations have agreed to support a major CERN project. If built, the FCC would be the successor to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), where the Higgs boson was discovered.
CERN originally released a four-volume conceptual design report for the FCC in early 2019, with more detail included in a three-volume feasibility study that came out last year. It calls for a giant tunnel some 90.7 km in circumference – roughly three times as long as the LHC – that would be built about 200 m underground on average.
SpaceX: 1 Million Satellites For Orbital Data Center [???]
January 31st, 2026Via: PC Magazine:
SpaceX is requesting to launch up to one million satellites to create a network of orbiting data centers around Earth.
Late on Friday, the company filed the request with the Federal Communications Commission, describing the project as a “constellation of satellites with unprecedented computing capacity to power advanced artificial intelligence (‘AI’) models and the applications that rely on them.”
The plan is shocking in its scope, dwarfing the existing Starlink constellation, which currently spans over 9,600 satellites in Earth’s orbit.
In one 8-page document, SpaceX describes the company’s proposed “Orbital Data Center system.” “To deliver the compute capacity required for large scale AI inference and data center applications serving billions of users globally, SpaceX aims to deploy a system of up to one million satellites to operate within narrow orbital shells spanning up to 50 km each (leaving sufficient room to deconflict against other systems with comparable ambitions),” the company wrote.
Related: With ‘Stargaze,’ SpaceX Aims to Prevent Orbital Starlink Satellite Collisions
Silver Plunges 30% in Worst Day Since 1980
January 30th, 2026Via: CNBC:
Gold and silver prices plunged Friday, as President Donald Trump’s nomination for the next chair of the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, appeared to relieve concerns about the central bank’s independence and sent the dollar soaring.
Spot silver was down 28% at $83.45 an ounce, trading near its lows of the day. Silver futures plummeted 31.4% to settle at $78.53, marking its worst day since March 1980.
Los Angeles ICE Riots Live
January 30th, 2026Via: Conner:
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Via: Los Angeles Times:
After hours of peaceful protests in downtown Los Angeles on Friday, tensions escalated outside the Metropolitan Detention Center with law enforcement pushing into a crowd of about 200 people and spraying a chemical agent on demonstrators.
Amid the unrest, the city went on tactical alert shortly after 5 p.m., according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
“Federal Authorities are taking debris, bottles and other objects,” the department wrote on X. “Federal Authorities have declared an Unlawful Assembly at the Detention Center and they have deployed pepper balls and tear gas.”
The department later issued a dispersal order for the area of Alameda Street between Union Station and First Street. As of 6:30 p.m., the LAPD said arrests were being made.
U.S. Trade Deficit Soaring Despite Tariffs
January 29th, 2026Via: CNBC:
The U.S. deficit with its global trading partners nearly doubled in November as the shortfall with the European Union swelled and the impact of President Donald Trump’s tariffs worked their way through the economy, the Census Bureau reported Thursday.
Following a month where the trade deficit hit its lowest level since early 2009, it shot up to $56.8 billion, an increase of 94.6% from October. Of that gain, about one-third came with the European Union, where the goods deficit rose by $8.2 billion. The goods deficit with China decreased by about $1 billion to $13.9 billion.
On a year-over-year basis, the deficit through November stood at $839.5 billion, or about 4% higher than the same period in 2024.
The increase in the deficit counters Trump’s efforts to use tariffs to reduce imbalances around the globe.
Gold-To-Silver Ratio Under 50
January 29th, 2026Via: Forbes:
The gold-to-silver ratio (the price of an ounce of gold divided by the price of an ounce of silver) has dropped below 50 for the first time since March 2012. In simple terms, that means silver is trading at its highest level relative to gold in nearly 14 years amidst a rally that has seen gold rise by more than 80% over the last year to $5,100 an ounce while silver has surged 250% to $110 an ounce, both all-time high prices.
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History shows how unusual this is. Since 1985, the ratio has averaged about 70 and has slipped below 50 on only about 6% of trading days. That does not mean it has to snap back right away, or at all. Wars, debt and inflation are still sending money into metals. Still, when a number almost never shows up, investors notice. And when enough of them do, it can start to shape what happens next.
So what would normalization of the gold-to-silver ratio look like right now?
The numbers can rebalance in two directions. If gold does not move much from around $5,100 an ounce, silver would have to fall to about $72 to restore the long-term average ratio of 70. That would be a drop of roughly 35%. If silver stays at $110 instead, gold would have to climb to about $7,700 an ounce.
Microsoft’s Windows 11 Mess Sending Users Back to Windows 10 and Windows 7
January 29th, 2026This is absolutely wild.
I’ve started getting used to ZorinOS, just in case…
Via: TweakTown:
The data comes from Statcounter, which outlines that in October, 2025, Windows 11 held 58.18% market share, compared to Windows 10’s 41.17%, but then in November 2025, Windows 11 dropped down to 53.7%, compared to Windows 10’s 42.7%. While this is only a change of a few percent, it represents millions of users, especially considering Microsoft said Windows is currently active on over 1.4 billion devices worldwide.
Notably, Windows 7 increased its user base by roughly 3.9% during the same period. Data as of December 2025 indicates Windows 11 has 50.7% of the market, while Windows 10 increased to about 44.6%, and the remainder is Microsoft’s previous operating systems.
The loss in users for Microsoft’s most recent operating system comes at a time when the company is catching some heat for faulty Windows 11 updates, which were officially recognized by the company, and a revelation that Microsoft would hand over BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI if requested.
Related: Microsoft Stock Loses 11% in One Day
